• Is it age appropriate?

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  Not age appropriate for kids under 15, age appropriate for kids over 17; suggested age 15.

• Is it any good?

  2.0

• Common Sense says

  Goofy marijuana movie with weak plot.

Why We Rated This for Ages 15–17

What to watch out for

• Messages:

  Smoking pot looks a little too fun in this movie, and the consequences that the friends encounter are so comic that they hardly count. That said, the drug-using characters are low-achievers and negative aspects of pot use are mentioned, like mood swings, lack of motivation, low sperm count.

• Role models :

  Mostly bad role models, not unexpectedly. Thurgood has a moral compass, however skewed. He insists that his foray into drug selling is not "dealing" but "fund-raising." And in the end, he quits pot because he recognizes that love (or is it sex?) is more important.
• Violence:

  Lots of highly comic mock violence, including a standoff between the friends and a drug dealer with machine guns. No blood, nothing scary.
• Sex:

  Thurgood has sex with his girlfriend, depicted in comically-posed still shots of the couple in underwear. He brags "Got some booty!" In one scene a woman's breast comes out of her shirt and everyone laughs and points. Some gay jokes.
• Language:

  Everything you can think of -- all in a humorous, if casual, way. Includes "f--k," "p-ssy," "bitch," "ass." Also one scene at a drug rehab meeting, one character says he "suck[ed] d--k for coke."
• Drinking, drugs, & smoking:

  All pot, all the time. The movie features bongs, pipes, joints, hookahs, and every other smoking device imaginable. Several references to other drugs, like coke and heroin, but they are considered "bad" drugs in the movie.

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